THE Concise AACR2 FOURTH EDITION MICHAEL GORMAN THE Concise AACR2 FOURTH EDITION Based on AACR2 2002 Revision 2004 Update Prepared by MICHAEL GORMAN Chicago: American Library Association Ottawa: Canadian Library Association London: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 2004 Published 2004 by AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 50 East Huron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611 ISBN 0-8389-3548-6 CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 328 Frank Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2P 0X8 ISBN 0-88802-311-1 Facet Publishing for the CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS 7 Ridgmount Street, London WC1E 7AE ISBN 1-85604-540-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gorman, Michael, 1941- The concise AACR2, 2004 revision / prepared by Michael Gorman. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-8389-3548-6 1. Anglo-American cataloguing rules. 2. Descriptive cataloging—Rules. I. Title: Concise Anglo-American cataloguing rules, 2004 revision. II. Anglo- American cataloguing rules. III. Title. Z694.15.A56G67 2004 025.3'2–dc22 2004016088 Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Gorman, Michael, 1941- The concise AACR2 : based on AACR2 2002 revision, 2004 update / prepared by Michael Gorman. — 4th ed. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-88802-311-1 1. Descriptive cataloging—Rules. I. Title. II. Title: Anglo-American cataloguing rules. Z694.15.A56G67 2004 025.3'2 C2004-905125-3 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1-85604-540-4 Copyright © 2004, American Library Association, Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 0807060504 54321 To the memory of my father PHILIP DENIS GORMAN 1903–1980 my mother ALICIA F. GORMAN 1918–1998 and of my friend HUGH CRAIG ATKINSON 1933–1986 Contents Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR vii Foreword ix Acknowledgements xi, xiii, xv, xvii General introduction 1 PART 1 Description Introduction 5 Rules 0–11 The description of library materials 7 PART 2 Headings, Uniform Titles, and References Introduction 60 Rules 21–29 Choice of access points 61 Rules 30–44 Headings for persons 95 Rules 45–47 Geographic names 115 Rules 48–56 Headings for corporate bodies 119 Rules 57–61 Uniform titles 133 Rules 62–65 References 140 Appendices I Capitalization 149 II Glossary 152 III Comparative table of rule numbers 160 Index 163 v Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR Chair Peter R. Lewis (1974–1980) Frances Hinton (1981–1983) Jean Weihs (1984–1989) Ben R. Tucker (1989–1992) Pat Oddy (1992–1996) Ralph Manning (1996–1999) Ann Huthwaite (1999–2003) Matthew Beacom (2003–2004) Sally Strutt (2004– ) American Library Association John D. Byrum (1974-1978) Janet Swan Hill (1989–1995) Frances Hinton (1979–1983) Brian Schottlaender (1995–2001) Helen Schmierer (1984-1989) Matthew Beacom (2001– ) Australian Committee on Cataloguing Jan Fullerton (1981–1983) Ann Huthwaite (1994–2003) Elaine Hall (1984–1989) Deirdre Kiorgaard (2003– ) Diana Dack (1989–1994) British Library Peter R. Lewis (1974–1978) John Byford (1986–1989) J. C. Downing (1978–1980) Pat Oddy (1989–1996) Joyce Butcher (1981–1985) Sally Strutt (1996– ) Canadian Committee on Cataloguing Jean Lunn (1974–1975) Jean Weihs (1981–1986) Edwin Buchinski (1975–1978) Ralph Manning (1986–1999) Ronald Hagler (1979–1980) Margaret Stewart (1999– ) CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals P. K. Escreet (1974–1978) Rodney Brunt (1989–1995) Peter R. Lewis (1978–1979) Susan Brown (1996–2002) Eric Hunter (1980–1985) Robert Atkinson (2002– ) Alan Jeffreys (1986–1989) vii viii JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE Library of Congress C. Sumner Spalding (1974) Sarah E. Thomas (1992–1994) Elizabeth Tate (1974–1976) Barbara B. Tillett (1994– ) Ben R. Tucker (1976–1992) Editors of AACR2 Michael Gorman (1974–1988) Paul W. Winkler (1974–1988) Foreword to 1981 Edition The idea of a concise text of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules is older than the idea of a second edition of the Rules (AACR2) itself. Michael Gorman first began work on what was then thought of as an “abridged edition” of the British Text of AACR 1967 almost two years before the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (of which I had the privilege to be the first chairperson) was set up to carry out the task of producing AACR2. The principal stimulus to that first project was the need expressed by librarians in third-world countries for a set of basic rules, stated in simple English, that could be used by relatively untrained personnel for relatively small and uncomplicated catalogues; and that would be compatible with a progress to the use of the full Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules as staff grew in training and experience and as the catalogues grew in size and complexity. Accordingly, Michael Gorman set to work with a small steering group consisting of Philip K. Escreet and Geoffrey E. Hamilton (both of whom also served later on the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR). Indeed, the project was within sight of completion when he laid it aside to take on a larger task, as one of the two editors of AACR2. One of the main objectives of AACR2, attained by its publication in 1978, was to bring together the separate North American and British texts of 1967; and another was to reorganize and express the rules in a simpler and more direct way. So most of the earlier work on the abridgement was nugatory—or, rather, it was used in other ways than originally planned, in AACR2 itself. However, the Joint Steering Committee soon perceived that the potential was even greater than had previously been estimated for a version of AACR2 that would meet the needs of the many practitioners and students in our own countries, as well as elsewhere in the world, to whom the full and comprehensive text of AACR2 tells more than they need to know, or wish to hear, about standards and procedures for catalogue making and the organi- zation of bibliographic records at a particular time in the development of their own libraries, of their own bibliographic services, or of their own studies. ix x FOREWORD Our main concern was that the quest for simplicity and conciseness in the smaller or less complex library and bibliographic environments should not be impeded by the full text’s need to provide in some detail for the whole range of conditions and complexities in the largest or most fully developed libraries and services. We were convinced, too, that the principles and practice set out in AACR2 were, in general terms, equally valid at both ends of the spectrum of development of library services, and, to change the metaphor, that a clearance of the least familiar trees from the thickly planted wood we call AACR would enable everyone who has a need to enter it to see the wood more easily as a whole and to find his or her way through it safely and surely. These were the aims that led the Joint Steering Committee to seek and obtain approval from its parent bodies, the authors of AACR2, for the creation and publication of a concise text, making use of Michael Gorman’s dual experience in preparing the earlier abridgement and editing AACR2, and of the reconstituted Joint Steering Committee as the authoritative advisory group to ensure the most effective relation- ship between the concise and the full texts. These are what the authors now have every confidence and belief has been accomplished in the CONCISE AACR2. It is a high quality working tool of practical value in all kinds of libraries and in many countries, and it embodies the essence of the Anglo-American Cata- loguing Rules in their most up-to-date form, with all the benefits that signifies in the wide world of national standards and international har- monization. PETER R. LEWIS Director General Bibliographic Services Division The British Library Acknowledgements (1981) Acknowledgements are due, in the first instance, members of the cataloguing rules committee of the Library Association from 1968 on- wards. This shorter edition of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules has been twelve years in the making. In encouraging me to attempt to produce a standard, though abridged, set of rules, the British cata- loguing rules committee is responsible for the present publication in ways which its then members may not be aware. More recently, the Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR (JSC) has given me complete support and encouragement. In particular, I wish to thank Peter Lewis (the chair of JSC from 1976 to 1980), Ronald Hagler, Fran Hinton, and Ben Tucker for their interest, comments, and unfailingly helpful suggestions. Many members of the American Library Associ- ation’s Catalog Code Revision Committee and, subsequently, Catalog- ing Committee—Description and Access, have provided me with advice and information. The following individuals have helped me with comments, criti- cism, examples, and suggestions: Liz Bishoff, John Byrum, Karen Lunde Christensen, Neal Edgar, Anne Gorman, Eric Hunter, Arnold Wajenberg, Jean Riddle Weihs. My thanks are due my graduate assis- tants at the University of Illinois (1978–80), Elvira Chavaria and Anne Reuland. Wendy Darre, who typed the many drafts of these rules with her inimitable competence and dispatch, was of invaluable assistance. I am grateful to Helen Cline (managing editor, ALA) for the expertise, care, and hard work that she brought to the task of editing this work for publication. Last, I wish to recognize my daughters, Emma and Alice, without whose unfailing help and encouragement this whole enterprise would have been completed sooner. MICHAEL GORMAN xi Acknowledgements (1989) I wish to reiterate my gratitude to all those named in the acknowl- edgements in the first edition of the CONCISE AACR2.